Update 2012.07.24: Sometimes it can take longer than expected… however the new version has been finished. All language settings were tested (I got a lot of feedback, thanks. To get a list of supported languages use -language – see help). In addition in the new version historical data / sessions are displayed (Example -session=2012/07/24-2). The version number has been changed to A 00.01.04. There will only one Version for both platforms – 32Bit and 64Bit. The new version can be found below.
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To calculate the speed of your backup jobs is not a easy task within Data Protector, you need to monitor the session, to write down the start time, to write down the GB written and finally to calculate the speed. So, here are the good news, this work I automated for you. Please donwload the new tool omnispeed from link below, it allows you to monitor the backup performance online without any manual work – please see screenshots. To install the tool extract the version (x86 or x64) into the bin folder in omniback on your cell server and execute it, thats it. If you are not running on Windows, please have a look at help screen. Please keep in mind: the values displayed are the total throughput for the currently running sessions, troughput for one session (current and total) will be displayed in next version.
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For this version only backup jobs are listed, the monitoring of restore, copy and consolidation jobs is postponed to further version. In next version and with a given session ID as option there will be a switch to display the performance for the job to be refreshed per 5 seconds. This will include total and current throughput. Also in next version you can expect the results from closed sessions and for single objects. On systems running locale set to with French, Japanese, Chinese or Arabic locale the software is not supported and will not run (If you help me translating I can make it work). For non german and non english systems, please read help to get localized version.
Update 2012.05.08: Added danish and bulgarian locale, the GB/h is an average, modified the code to display the word average in help and in the output. Added a comment that if option -server is not used localhost is assumed. Version of tool changed to A 00.01.01
I look forward to further suggestions and hope you will enjoy the tool.
Thanx. Works pretty good
Pretty good stuff, really! Daniel is exactly describing what I needed to do before, devide total amount of data backed up by duriation. Hope that soon I also can see the average speed of completed jobs which would help me even more.
Works for me on Server 2008 R2 (x64) with DP 7.0.
if it can use at no English machine, i think it is perfect…
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$ omnispeed
Sorry, your language is not supported in this version.
You might switch your locale to english. Aborting …
Good stuff here. Very impressive by accessing the session from external program. If the program show the logical drive name in use or the lockname, it would be easier to find out which backup to be killed to use the drive for urgent restores.
Would you be able to share the source code for this program? 🙂
Regards,
Raja
Hi Tawaraja,
thanks for your comments. Unfortunately there is no space left in the row to display the lockname, if it is OK to display a list of locked devices afterwards please send a mail to daniel-braun(at)data-protector.org.
Best regards
Daniel
PS: At the moment I’ll not share the code
Really love this tool. Thank You very much. Really like your blog also, lots of good tips and advices. Keep up the good work.